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blue colour paler ; two bluish-white spots at the end of the 

 cell, and an obsolete row of pale bluish spots curving bejond 

 the cell from the end of the main bhie stripe to the costa. 

 Hind wings with a uniformly broad blackish-brown border. 

 Underside : fore wings nearly as in the male, but tinged with 

 yellowish grey towards the tip, and narrowly along the costa : 

 hind wings yellowish grey, shading into light brownish in the 

 cell. 



Hab. Cameroons. 



Closely allied to E. ceraunia, Hew., from which the under 

 surface of the male hardly differs. 



Epitola dunia. 



Expands 1^ inch, 



Male. — Wings broad ; fore wings with the costa arched, 

 the hind margin nearly straight ; hind wings moderately 

 rounded, anal angle only slightly rounded off. Fore wings 

 black, with a large purplish-blue patch on the inner margin 

 at one fourth of its length, ceasing before the anal angle, and 

 continued upwards into the cell ; the base of the cell and 

 inner margin is slightly dusted with blue : hind wings purplish 

 blue, the costa above the cell and the inner margin black, 

 the hind margin more narrowly ; the upper part of the disco- 

 cellular marked with black. Underside light brown : fore 

 wings with a large space on the outer half of the inner mar- 

 gin whitish : hind wings with scattered white scales, having 

 a tendency to run into rows. 



Hab. Cameroons. 



Allied to E. cercene^ Hew., but less blue above, and with no 

 distinct markings on the underside. 



Epitola viarginata. 



Expands 1^ inch. 



Male. — Wings with the fringes denticulated ; fore wings 

 broad, hind margin rounded off towards the anal angle ; hind 

 wings rather short, the hind margin gradually rounded ; fore 

 wings blue, broadly black at the base of the cell, above the 

 cell, and at the tip and hind margin, nearly to the anal angle, 

 and the discocellular also marked with black : hind wings 

 blue, the costa above the cell, the hind margin narrowly, and 

 the inner margin moderately bordered with black ; the in- 

 cisions on all the wings dusted with white : hind wings 

 brown, dusted with white, in such a manner as to form irre- 

 gular obsolete zigzag lines and blotches, especially towards 



